EASTERN MUD TURTLE Kinosternon subrubrum (Lacepede, 1788) 

STATUS:  Common

DOCUMENTED COUNTIES:  Collin, Dallas, Denton, Ellis, Kaufman, Parker, and Tarrant

HABITAT:  Trinity River Bottoms, Blackland Prairie, and Post Oak Belt

SUBSPECIES:  Mississippi Mud Turtle (K. s. hippocrepis Gray,1855)